The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 45
Perceiving that the king had deployed his forces, he turned the bowl of curds loose.
Who acts: king · What happens: perceive, deploy, turn · To what, where: king, bowl
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perceiving | perceive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 turned | advcl |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 deployed | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deployed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 deployed | aux |
| 6 | deployed | deploy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Perceiving | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 forces | nmod:poss |
| 8 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 deployed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Perceiving | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bowl | det |
| 13 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 curds | case |
| 15 | curds | curd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bowl | nmod |
| 16 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 11 turned | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | gerund | king not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | deploy | past · perfect · passive | the king | king's forces obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | king | the bowl of curds | loose property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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